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Detailed record for Additional 34652
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| Part 1 |
f. 2 |
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| Title |
One leaf from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: the preface with West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899) |
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| Origin |
England, S. E. (Winchester) |
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| Date |
4th quarter of the 11th century |
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| Language |
English |
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| Script |
Minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Large initial in brown. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
240 x 170 (210 x 150) |
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| Part 2 |
f. 3 |
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| Title |
Leaf from the bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) |
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| Origin |
England |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 11th century |
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| Language |
English and Latin |
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| Script |
Minuscule |
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| Decoration |
Large chapter numbers in black. Small number (f. 3), rubrics and initial (f. 3v) in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
140 x 90 (130 x 80) |
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| Part 3 |
f. 5 |
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| Title |
Leaf from a missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin |
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| Origin |
France, N. or Netherlands, S. |
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| Date |
2nd half of the 13th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Gothic |
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| Decoration |
Large image of the crucifixion with frame in ochre, blue and green with decoration (f. 5). Initials in red or blue with penwork decoration in the other colour (f. 5v). |
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| Dimensions in mm |
225 x 140 |
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| Part 4 |
f. 6 |
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| Title |
End of Song of songs (IV.7 to end) and beginning of Wisdom (fragment) |
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| Origin |
England (S.) |
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| Date |
4th quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century |
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| Language |
Latin |
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| Script |
Protogothic |
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| Decoration |
Initials in red, brown or green. Rubrics in red. |
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| Dimensions in mm |
275 x 70/205 |
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| Official foliation |
ff. 61 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and at the end) |
| Form |
Parchment folios |
| Binding |
Post 1600. Black leather with gold tooling. |
| Provenance |
Part 1:
The Benedictine Cathedral Priory of St Peter, St Paul and St Swithin, Winchester: the chronicle was written here in the 11th century.
The Augustinian priory of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Southwick, Hampshire: with MS Cotton Otho B x, ff. 55, 58 and 62, this leaf was part of Cotton Otho B xi (see Ker 1939), which was borrowed from the priory by John Leland in c. 1533 (see discussion in Carley 2001).
All parts:
Thomas Tanner, (b. 1674, d. 1735), bishop of St Asaph and antiquary, inscribed 'Ex Biblioteca cl. T. Tanner (f. 2).
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d.1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts, probably collected and bound together by him (he also owned more substantial fragments from two manuscripts, now Stowe 31); his sale at
Puttick's on 19 June, 1894, lot 121; purchased by the British Museum for £35. |
| Notes |
Contents:
Part 1 (f. 2): the text is the same as in the Parker Chronicle (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 173) and Cotton Tiberius A. iii, f.178.
Part 2 (f. 3): the Old English text corresponds to that in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 191
The remaining contents include a folio from a 12th-century Psalter (f. 4), Epistolae of Sidonius (ff. 11,12), biblical and legal manuscript fragments, facsimiles and printed plates from early Gospel books in French, Latin and Greek. |
| Select bibliography |
Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1894-1899. Part 1 (London: British Museum, 1901), pp. 28-30.
N. R. Ker, 'Membra Disiecta, Second Series', British Museum Quarterly (14) (1939-40), 79-86, (pp. 81-82).
N. R. Ker, Catalogue of Manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), nos. 128, 180.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 181, 200 (Part 1, f. 2).
Richard Marsden, ‘The Old Testament in Late Anglo-Saxon England: Preliminary observations on the Textual Evidence’, in The Early Medieval Bible: Its Production, Decoration and Use (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 101-124 (pp. 102, 104, 121, 123) [Part 4, f. 6].
Richard Marsden, 'Ask What I am Called': The Anglo-Saxons and Their Bibles', in The Bible as Book: The Manuscript Tradition, ed. by John L. Sharpe and Kimberly Van Kampen (London: British Library, 1998), pp. 145-176 (p.174) [Part 4, f. 6].
The Libraries of King Henry VIII, ed. by J. P. Carley, Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, 7 (London, 2000), p. xliv.
Helmut Gneuss, Handlist of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A List of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 241 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2001) no. 288 (Part 2, f. 3), no. 289 (Part 4, f. 6), under no. 357 (Part 1, f. 2).
Thomas A. Bredehoft, Textual Histories: Readings in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001), pp. 27-28 [Part 1, f. 2]
Richard Gameson, The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral: Manuscripts and Fragments to c. 1200 (London: Bibliographical Society, 2008), p. 131 [Part 2, f. 3]. |
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Part 1
f. 2 |
| One leaf from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: the preface with West-Saxon genealogy from Cerdic (494) to Alfred (899) |
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f. 2
Text page |
f. 2v
Text page |
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Part 2
f. 3 |
| Leaf from the bilingual Rule of Chrodegang (chapters 60-62, incomplete) |
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f. 3
Text page |
f. 3v
Text page |
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Part 3
f. 5 |
| Leaf from a missal with prefaces for the feasts of the Holy Cross, the Apostles and the Blessed Virgin |
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f. 5
Crucifixion |
f. 5v
Text page |
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Part 4
f. 6 |
| End of Song of songs (IV.7 to end) and beginning of Wisdom (fragment) |
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